ARE YOU A BIAFRAN?
Those who arrested and sentenced Isaac Adaka Boro to death for declaring Niger Delta Republic were neither Hausa-Fulanis nor Yorubas but two supposed brothers of his and Biafrans named Odumegwu Ojukwu and Aguiyi Ironsi who were still on the side of Gambaris and still trying to please them as at then. For declaring Niger-Delta Republic Ironsi, the then military head of state, ordered Ojukwu to get Isaac Boro arrested for treason.
Ojukwu, in an attempt to please Gambaris, fought Isaac Boro for 12 days within which he used federal might of “one-Nigeria” to kill 150 soldiers loyal to Isaac Boro, caught Isaac Boro, stripped him naked and sent him over to Lagos where Ironsi charged him to court and within just 2 months got him convicted, at the Supreme Court, of treasonable felony of trying to break away from Azikiwe’s one Nigeria, got him sentenced to death by hanging. While Ironsi​ and Ojukwu did all that to Isaac Boro​, they left untouched their own Igbo brother soldiers who planned a coup with which they killed Innocent Hausas, Yorubas, Niger Deltans, Middle belters leaving Igbo politicians unharmed despite they, like Zik and Okpara, were part and parcel of the corrupt Balewa government.
However, before Ojukwu and Ironsi could execute their sentence on Isaac Boro God intervened and the counter coup happened. Ironsi was overthrown and killed. Gowon took over declared Isaac Boro innocent and released him. But just fifteen months later Ojukwu too declared Biafra Republic due to the way Igbos were being killed in the North. In declaring Biafra, rather than first apologise to Isaac Boro for what he earlier did to him and then ask for his cooperation in fighting to realize the Biafra dream, Ojukwu did nothing like that but without consulting Boro at all went as far as arrogantly including in his Biafra map the very Niger Delta areas which Isaac Boro earlier tried to pull out of Nigeria and which he (Ojukwu) nearly killed him for.
This angered Isaac Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa who both pledged support for Gowon in order to teach Ojukwu a bitter lesson for his arrogance and dishonesty. That was why Isaac Boro and Saro Wiwa fought on the side of Gowon during the war. Naturally Isaac Boro couldn’t have come out of prison to join the Ojukwu who jailed him and fight against the Gowon who released him. It would have been absurd. No rational human being does that.
This is the truth of what happened and which Igbos hate to hear but prefer to blame everyone else as if they themselves were 100℅ innocent.
Igbos must learn to say the truth because if the Biafra/Niger Delta Republic they now seek is founded on lies and deliberate falsehood, like Nigeria, it will not stand but will soon become a failed state like Nigeria. We can’t leave Nigeria for another Nigeria.
But we however know that Igbos allergy to truth is incurable, therefore Niger-Delta states will never be part of Biafra

Some people can easily forget history ooo.

Akon324:
ARE YOU A BIAFRAN?
Those who arrested and sentenced Isaac Adaka Boro to death for declaring Niger Delta Republic were neither Hausa-Fulanis nor Yorubas but two supposed brothers of his and Biafrans named Odumegwu Ojukwu and Aguiyi Ironsi who were still on the side of Gambaris and still trying to please them as at then. For declaring Niger-Delta Republic Ironsi, the then military head of state, ordered Ojukwu to get Isaac Boro arrested for treason.
Ojukwu, in an attempt to please Gambaris, fought Isaac Boro for 12 days within which he used federal might of “one-Nigeria” to kill 150 soldiers loyal to Isaac Boro, caught Isaac Boro, stripped him naked and sent him over to Lagos where Ironsi charged him to court and within just 2 months got him convicted, at the Supreme Court, of treasonable felony of trying to break away from Azikiwe’s one Nigeria, got him sentenced to death by hanging. While Ironsi​ and Ojukwu did all that to Isaac Boro​, they left untouched their own Igbo brother soldiers who planned a coup with which they killed Innocent Hausas, Yorubas, Niger Deltans, Middle belters leaving Igbo politicians unharmed despite they, like Zik and Okpara, were part and parcel of the corrupt Balewa government.
However, before Ojukwu and Ironsi could execute their sentence on Isaac Boro God intervened and the counter coup happened. Ironsi was overthrown and killed. Gowon took over declared Isaac Boro innocent and released him. But just fifteen months later Ojukwu too declared Biafra Republic due to the way Igbos were being killed in the North. In declaring Biafra, rather than first apologise to Isaac Boro for what he earlier did to him and then ask for his cooperation in fighting to realize the Biafra dream, Ojukwu did nothing like that but without consulting Boro at all went as far as arrogantly including in his Biafra map the very Niger Delta areas which Isaac Boro earlier tried to pull out of Nigeria and which he (Ojukwu) nearly killed him for.
This angered Isaac Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa who both pledged support for Gowon in order to teach Ojukwu a bitter lesson for his arrogance and dishonesty. That was why Isaac Boro and Saro Wiwa fought on the side of Gowon during the war. Naturally Isaac Boro couldn’t have come out of prison to join the Ojukwu who jailed him and fight against the Gowon who released him. It would have been absurd. No rational human being does that.
This is the truth of what happened and which Igbos hate to hear but prefer to blame everyone else as if they themselves were 100℅ innocent.
Igbos must learn to say the truth because if the Biafra/Niger Delta Republic they now seek is founded on lies and deliberate falsehood, like Nigeria, it will not stand but will soon become a failed state like Nigeria. We can’t leave Nigeria for another Nigeria.
But we however know that Igbos allergy to truth is incurable, therefore Niger-Delta states will never be part of Biafra

I doubt if you people know that when Adaka Boro declared Niger Delta Republic, he only did it for his Ijaw ethnic group and nobody else.

What I find amusing is that Edo people, Urhobo and some few others, are now trying to identify with what Boro did for his fellow Ijaws when it had nothing to do with them

And who later killed Adaka Boro?
And Saro Wiwa?
And hundreds of Niger delta youths wasted in the creeks by the Nigeria military?

A friend's brother,an only son of the family joined his friends to go and tap some condesent from the creek some years ago and the Nigeria military came there and killed all of them, and I ask you, how many times have the soldiers killed any of the hausa youth minining gold illegally in zamfara.

We know that after the reported meeting of Niger delta leadership, you people will go into overdrive.
We are ready and waiting.

Akon324:
ARE YOU A BIAFRAN?
Those who arrested and sentenced Isaac Adaka Boro to death for declaring Niger Delta Republic were neither Hausa-Fulanis nor Yorubas but two supposed brothers of his and Biafrans named Odumegwu Ojukwu and Aguiyi Ironsi who were still on the side of Gambaris and still trying to please them as at then. For declaring Niger-Delta Republic Ironsi, the then military head of state, ordered Ojukwu to get Isaac Boro arrested for treason.
Ojukwu, in an attempt to please Gambaris, fought Isaac Boro for 12 days within which he used federal might of “one-Nigeria” to kill 150 soldiers loyal to Isaac Boro, caught Isaac Boro, stripped him naked and sent him over to Lagos where Ironsi charged him to court and within just 2 months got him convicted, at the Supreme Court, of treasonable felony of trying to break away from Azikiwe’s one Nigeria, got him sentenced to death by hanging. While Ironsi​ and Ojukwu did all that to Isaac Boro​, they left untouched their own Igbo brother soldiers who planned a coup with which they killed Innocent Hausas, Yorubas, Niger Deltans, Middle belters leaving Igbo politicians unharmed despite they, like Zik and Okpara, were part and parcel of the corrupt Balewa government.
However, before Ojukwu and Ironsi could execute their sentence on Isaac Boro God intervened and the counter coup happened. Ironsi was overthrown and killed. Gowon took over declared Isaac Boro innocent and released him. But just fifteen months later Ojukwu too declared Biafra Republic due to the way Igbos were being killed in the North. In declaring Biafra, rather than first apologise to Isaac Boro for what he earlier did to him and then ask for his cooperation in fighting to realize the Biafra dream, Ojukwu did nothing like that but without consulting Boro at all went as far as arrogantly including in his Biafra map the very Niger Delta areas which Isaac Boro earlier tried to pull out of Nigeria and which he (Ojukwu) nearly killed him for.
This angered Isaac Boro and Ken Saro Wiwa who both pledged support for Gowon in order to teach Ojukwu a bitter lesson for his arrogance and dishonesty. That was why Isaac Boro and Saro Wiwa fought on the side of Gowon during the war. Naturally Isaac Boro couldn’t have come out of prison to join the Ojukwu who jailed him and fight against the Gowon who released him. It would have been absurd. No rational human being does that.
This is the truth of what happened and which Igbos hate to hear but prefer to blame everyone else as if they themselves were 100℅ innocent.
Igbos must learn to say the truth because if the Biafra/Niger Delta Republic they now seek is founded on lies and deliberate falsehood, like Nigeria, it will not stand but will soon become a failed state like Nigeria. We can’t leave Nigeria for another Nigeria.
But we however know that Igbos allergy to truth is incurable, therefore Niger-Delta states will never be part of Biafra

Emm please who killed iseac boro please and why leave out that part

gidgiddy:


I doubt if you people know that when Adaka Boro declared Niger Delta Republic, he only did it for his Ijaw ethnic group and nobody else.

What I find amusing is that Edo people, Urhobo and some few others, are now trying to identify with what Boro did for his fellow Ijaws when it had nothing to do with them

And there was no resolution by ijaw leaders them to support biafra ...is like kanu coming today to declare biafra he knows it's foolishness and would warrant death

Instead he is asking for referendum

Niger delta people can believe anything to justify the hate on igbos I don't care I blame ipob

I ways ask Niger deltans ...if it was igbos collecting your oil like yorubas n Hausas would u be this calm ?

Ipob should learn to leave this people alone for heaven's sake

Ohanaeze should demand every igbos sub group declare their igboness or be removed from the igbo map ...time to select when u are igbos has passed

Is this all about remaining in one nigeria .
your so love for niger delta people is so they remain slave to your fulani people .

why dont you write about saro wiwa
Tell us about your homeless fulani race and their Nigeria inheritance.

Who killed Adaka Boro?

Who Killed Adaka Boro? Why the Blame on Igbo Accusing them of Betrayal? Was Adaka Boro Betrayed?

I have read many false history that breeds hatred against the Igbo, regarding Adaka Boro. Majority of Ijaw believe the Igbo betrayed Adaka Boro and killed him. This makes me laugh. Ignorance is a disease. Lack of history, Maazị just shuddering in disbelief that people can be so gullible to peddle falsehood for what gain?

Let's go to history.

Who is Adaka Boko? Isaac Adaka Boro was a University of Nigeria, Nsụka's student. He was also the SUG president of the said university. He failed election two times before he won, then blamed his failure on Igbo, claiming he lost because he was Ijaw and suffered tribalism in his region. Remember, Adaka Boro was enjoying the scholarship of Eastern Region Government. He was on free education. He hailed from Oloidiri, Bayelsa. He was the first person to declare secession in 1966 at the age of 27.

Adaka Boro's rebellion was sponsored by the Tafawa Balewa government. Tafawa Government believed that the NCNC and AG were sponsoring the Tiv unrests and the UMBC led by Joseph Tarka. To deal with NCNC, Adaka Boro was sponsored to caused insurrection with his boys. They began to destroy things. Adaka Boro used his father's backyard as a training ground to arm his boys.

As Ironsi took over, through MD Yusuf, CID chief, he noticed that the Adaka insurrection was a Balewa's plan, he issued military order and Boro was arrested and incacerated for 2 weeks. Remember he was causing this unrest before the coup. After the January coup where one of his key sponsors— Tafewa Balewa was killed, Boro was very angry. He called Tafewa Balewa "the projector of Ijaw".

Adaka Boro declared Ijaw Republic on February 1966, a month after the coup. He was so radical and courageous that as a student, he dragged the Federal Government to court seeking the nullification of the 1963 general election. When he proclaimed the Niger Delta Republic in February 1966, Boro argued that the region where the nation’s wealth comes from had suffered years of neglect and underdevelopment. But scholars believed this was not the main reason of declaring the Niger Delta Republic.

Have you asked yourself why the Niger-Deltan elders including his father didn't support him? See the reasons according to reviews by scholars.

South African anti-apartheid activist and scholar, Ruth First as quoted by Kathryn Nwajiaku, states that Boro and his men were in league with senior Northern officers, and had wanted to use the threat of revolution to trigger the imposition of a state of emergency by the Northern-led Federal government prior to the first coup. Before the January coup, Adaka Boro and his men were already sponsored by the Fulani caliphate to cause insurrection. His brother confirmed this.

David, his younger brother during an interview with Punch said that his brother received support from the North before the declaration of Niger-Deltan Republic, “Isaac Boro did not just start the 12-Day Revolution and decided to declare a Niger Delta Republic. There was some degree of encouragement from the North.” Boro himself admitted to having close ties with the Balewa government.

The question is, how did 27 year old undergraduate student had funds to secure weapons, mass out thugs and militia? Was he being supported by the elders of Ijaw?
David his brother continued: "Our father advised him against it and told him to face his studies because he was a student".

Adaka Boro did not just declare Niger Delta Republic, he was fighting the Federal Government under the leadership of Agụiyi Ironsi through his Niger Delta Volunteer Force. He believed that the regime must be dissolved. The Northern leaders funded him to attack the government.

NDVF and the Nigerian forces which is widely known as ‘The Twelve-day Revolution’ led to the death of over 150 people. The armed militia led by Boro was overpowered by the Nigerian forces, while Boro and Samuel Owonaru who was the Chief of Staff of the Niger Delta Volunteer Force and other leaders of the militia group were arrested and charged for treason. When they appeared before Justice Phil-Ebosie of the Port Harcourt High Court. They were sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted to life in jail. Remember, they didn't just declare independent, but fighting federal forces and killing people.

A year later, following the 1966 Igbo pogrom in Kano that killed over 50,000 Igbo and after the series of counter-coup which killed the First Military Head of State— Agụiyi Ironsi, and also after the Aburi Accord disobeyed by Gowon, Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu declared Biafra as he was being forced by the Eastern Region Consultative Committee.

Remember at this time, Ijaw elders supported BIAFRA. The name BIAFRA was given by na Ijaw man from Adaka Boro's tribe and state— Opiogo.

Gowon saw Boro an important tool in his campaign of "quelling Ojukwu's rebellion" and the opportunity of ingraining the Northern "love and anchor" for the oil Rivers they claimed were "suffering Igbo domination and subjugation". Gowon released Isaac Adaka Boro from prison and recruited him into the Army in order to fight Ojukwu and the Igbo.

What did Adaka Boro do?

He recruited 1000 Rivers men into Army to fight Biafrans. The Nigerian military led by Adaka Boro killed all their chiefs and elders who were Pro-Biafrans and install young people like Diette Spiff 23 as the governor.

Many of Ijaw elders ran away to exile and never returned because of Adaka Boro. Most of his boys and Federal troops would kill Biafran soldiers, strip their camouflage and used it to constitute different mayhems in the region that people of that place would later accuse it on the Igbo Army. Adekunle the Black-Scorpion committed a lot of atrocities. And you know what? He was working with Adaka Boro.

Adaka Boro led the Federal troops to Igbo hinterland and many places in Rivers and kill the Pro-Biafrans. The worst of Adaka's atrocity was the Opobo incident.

What happened?

Boro led the Nigerian military to kill a lot of people in Opobo, exiled their chiefs. He believed they are Igbo people. This incident made a lot of people in Rivers to start changing their names from Igbo to something else.

The first doctor from Etche was killed by Boro led army. He did a lot of things. He took Nigeria troop into Eastern heartland.

What happened was that he started making noise, bragging how he has defeated Biafrans, that was when Nigerian military felt he's no more important and deleted him. Many fingers pointed at Adekunle who was called the Black scorpion as an instrument for Adaka Boro's elimination in May 9, 1968 at Okrika, Rivers State. Remember, by this time, Port Harcourt, Uyo, Calabar, Bonny and many other oil rich areas have been captured, there was no need for him anymore. He helped the federal troops conquered these places and of course they ended him just as they ended Ken Saro Wiwa who did the same with Adaka Boro.

The how did Igbo kill Adaka Boro whereas everywhere had been captured before he died? How did Igbo betray Adaka Boro? Someone who killed his people and was used by the Fulani caliphate against himself. Someone who forced Ijaw-Pro Biafran chiefs to exile, dethroned and killed them. How did the Igbo betray him? How and how? Someone who dealt with Chief Opiogo his kinsman for supporting Biafra. Ken Saro Wiwa also used abandoned property to seize Chief Opiogo's properties in Port Harcourt. Chief Opigo's (who named Biafra) property is where Rivers State College of Art and Science is currently located.

Like Adaka Boko like Ken Saro Wiwa— then joined outsiders to kill their own out of hate, jealousy and strife; the same outsiders killed them because they don't trust anyone who killed his own.

In Obasanjo's Book: "My Command" Olusegun Obasanjo described Boro and his 1,000 soldiers as “ill-disciplined, hurriedly and poorly trained Rivers men,”.

Alabi-Isama's book paints picture of his death in Okrika to be a clean off from scene. Use and dump. Someone who organised barracks to train Nigerian military and use paddling techniques and many more to lead federal troops to kill the Igbo. That was how Adaka Boro destroyed himself by betraying himself, betray his people and got killed by the people he joined to kill his people. Nobody betrayed him.

© Maazị Ogbonnaya

Why this write up. The whole world knows that Biafra is an Igbo insane expansionist Niger Delta land grab. Don't give it any merit. We have filed an objection to the proposed map of Biafra at the UNPO. As at now there can be no Biafran referendum. All parties will be invited to validate the basis for their referendum. As of now only Yoruba Nation and the old Midwest region has established any basis for an undisputed rational reason for a referendum. The Second Midwest referendum will come before all others and it will pull the whole Niger Delta out of Nigeria.

mrvitalis:

And there was no resolution by ijaw leaders them to support biafra ...is like kanu coming today to declare biafra he knows it's foolishness and would warrant death

Instead he is asking for referendum

Niger delta people can believe anything to justify the hate on igbos I don't care I blame ipob

I ways ask Niger deltans ...if it was igbos collecting your oil like yorubas n Hausas would u be this calm ?

Ipob should learn to leave this people alone for heaven's sake

Ohanaeze should demand every igbos sub group declare their igboness or be removed from the igbo map ...time to select when u are igbos has passed

Many ethnic groups in the so called Niger Delta have slave mentality, thats why some of them will see Biafra and Oduduwa as jokers. Slaves usually see freedom fighters as jokers

But what concerns me is history. A declaration made by Adaka Boro over 50 years for his Ijaw people what someone from another ethnic group is dwelling on

The same person is not talking about the fact that he has been enslaved, his oil wealth stolen, and his land reduced to nothing for the last 50 years

spearman:
Why this write up. The whole world knows that Biafra is an Igbo insane expansionist Niger Delta land grab. Don't give it any merit. We have filed an objection to the proposed map of Biafra at the UNPO. As at now there can be no Biafran referendum. All parties will be invited to validate the basis for their referendum. As of now only Yoruba Nation and the old Midwest region has established any basis for an undisputed rational reason for a referendum. The Second Midwest referendum will come before all others and it will pull the whole anger Delta out of Nigeria.

First as a Niger deltan from rivers I'm telling you we are with Biafra. Secondly go and see what your leaders told buhari earlier

Adaka Boro was a puppet used by the Fulani Caliphate to drag the good people of Niger Delta into this mess.
Adaka Boro masterminded the stripping of 50% loyalty the people of Niger Delta enjoyed under Eastern region to 10% weeks into being controlled by Nigeria in 1968.
Adaka Boro betrayed his own Ijaw people and dragged the good people of Ibibio, Annang and Efik into this mess.
Imagine begging for 15% when the people of Niger Delta enjoyed 50% under Eastern Region.
Adaka Boro was an is a traitor

BKayy:
Adaka Boro was a puppet used by the Fulani Caliphate to drag the good people of Niger Delta into this mess.
Adaka Boro masterminded the stripping of 50% loyalty the people of Niger Delta enjoyed under Eastern region to 10% weeks into being controlled by Nigeria in 1968.
Adaka Boro betrayed his own Ijaw people and dragged the good people of Ibibio, Annang and Efik into this mess.
Imagine begging for 15% when the people of Niger Delta enjoyed 50% under Eastern Region.
Adaka Boro was an is a traitor

Who used Iguinyi and what happened to him?